peria chronicles

Massively Overpowered’s end-of-the-year 2017 awards continue today with our award for Most Anticipated MMORPG, which was awarded to Star Citizen last year for the third year in a row, though it was an incredibly close vote. (And yes, we recognize the irony of Star Citizen mopping up both negative and positive awards.) This year’s discussion on most anticipated was close too, but there’s more a sense of frustration since a lot of the games we’re picking from here year after year are the same – because they still aren’t out.

Don’t forget to cast your own vote in the just-for-fun reader poll at the very end!

The Massively OP staff pick for Most Anticipated MMORPG of 2018 and Beyond is…

If you’ve forgotten about Peria Chronicles, you can get a refresher in the game’s trailer from last year down below. And that’s more news than you’ll get about the game from Nexon at this year’s G-Star conference, as Peria Chronicles is conspicuously absent. For those of you who have been following the game, that’s going to be worrisome. Is it still coming? Is the game on track?

Steparu reports that the reason for the game’s absence is entirely down to a question of how long it takes to prepare a demo. The developers want to start moving into beta testing and the like this winter, which necessitates focusing less on making a demo and more on getting the game into a better state. Plausible? Sure, why not. But then, Nexon isn’t bringing a bunch of its in-progress games to the con; Astellia Online, Mabinogi Fantasy Life Mobile, Tree of Savior Mobile Remake, Elsword M Shadow of Luna, Durango Wild Lands, and the Final Fantasy XI Rebooot will all apparently be no-shows.

Tune in next week for shocking revelations that will change the beta world forever! Or just another round of tests. Hey, you can always dive into the full list of tests just below, there might be even more stuff in there (albeit stuff that’s less than shocking). Did something open up a cash shop without us noticing or fully launch when we haven’t noticed it? Let us know in the comments.

G-Star 2016 is just around the corner, and that means that Western MMO fans can dazzle at the numerous Korean MMOs on display whilst hoping that some of them will actually show up in a localized form. One such game is Peria Chronicles, which has put out a new trailer in advance of the event. It’s only three minutes long, but it manages to pack a lot into those three minutes.

If you’ve been following the game since it was first announced, you should click on through to check out some character creation, world editing, combat, and all sorts of other stuff. If you’ve literally just heard of the game right now… well, why not still check out the trailer? Maybe it’ll be just what you’re looking for.

Nexon’s MMORPG catalogue is about to get a whole lot bigger. In a press release issued today, the studio has announced 35 new games, quite a few of them MMORPGs and mobile MMOs. Some of them were already known to us, and many are even at the stage that they’ll be shown at G-Star later this month.

LawBreakers is also heading to South Korea after its debut here earlier in 2016. And there are a few other MMORPGs with little information available, including Project Meta, Dragon Nest II: Legend, and Durango. Given Nexon’s track record of porting its games westward, we think there’s plenty to be excited about. Check out some of the trailers below!Read more

All right. Peria Chronicles. If you don’t remember what the heck this game is, we don’t blame you. The game showed off an astonishing trailer back in 2014 that promised a beautifully stylized world complete with content and insanely powerful sandbox creation tools, but you might have forgotten about that. You may even have forgotten that the game skipped the last G-Star convention in South Korea, or you saw that and assumed that the ambitious sandbox was quietly shelved. According to Steparu, though, it’s still on the way; it just had some really big hurdles to overcome.

As it turns out, creating a stylized cel-shaded sandbox with content and entertaining mechanics for players? Very difficult. The team behind the game has apologized for the silence and any worries caused by said silence, but the hardest part of the development is done, although there’s still a long way to go. No word on how long it will be or even what that long way looks like, but you can check out that original 2014 trailer below if you feel like getting hyped all over again.

Similarly, the Nexon team responsible for anime sandbox MMO Peria Chronicles will be skipping G-Star. Steparu says that the dev team is purportedly focusing on the game itself instead of showcasing it to the public. You can click past the cut for a couple videos that introduce both Peria Chronicles and Lineage Eternal.